This workshop will be held virtually. A Zoom link will be sent within 24 hours of the event.

This workshop provides a practical introduction working with date/time and string variables in R.

This workshop assumes experience and comfort with using R for data analytic work. If you are new to R, you should start with the "First Steps in R," "Second Steps in R," and "Manipulating Data in R using the Tidyverse" workshops.

Software Used: R, RStudio

Topics

This workshop covers:

• Using the lubridate and stringr packages to work with dates and strings, respectively
• Formatting dates and times 
• Parsing dates
• Calculating time spans
• Converting time spans (e.g., hours to minutes)
• Trimming whitespace from character strings
• Searching and replacing within character strings
• Regular expressions
• Pattern matching and extracting text of interest

NEW: Any student who participates in at least 3 library workshops during the fall 2021 semester will be eligible for a prize! How it works: Register for a library workshop or tour. After you have attended at least 3, a librarian will contact you with information about how to pick up your prize. Learn more about this incentive program at: guides.library.yale.edu/WorkshopIncentiveProgram.